MinnMax’s Ben Hanson talks so Final Fantasy 14 superfan Sarah Podzorski and tries to guess the full plot for the game and its expansions based solely on its depiction in Theatrhythm Final Bar Line. The music game has characters, bosses, and a mountain of music from the game including a bunch of tracks from Alexander. Help support content like this directly by subscribing to MinnMax’s YouTube channel or unlocking a benefit on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/minnmax
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Hell yeah Theatrhythm!!!
LOL I really thought Ben was joking when he thought #2 was a completely new character
I wish I could transplant my experience with FFXIV directly into people like Ben because I know it's too daunting to play through from start to finish. Let's just link brains so you can experience the high highs and know all the context of why people love it so much.
Always love seeing more Theatrhythm content, seems like a lot of people slept on that release when it's actually tons of fun. I was planning on doing what you did Ben and try to get some of or most of the story of the FFs I never played by playing through their songs on Theatrhythm like FF5. Maybe that isnt such a good idea after all lol.
It's hard to tell from the vid, but are the songs really drowned out by those clinks and clangs from hitting the beats? I'm not familiar with the theater rhythm games but I'm curious about it because I love the ff series. But my God are you really listening to that the whole time?
Just play 14 Ben. You don't have to interact with people hardly at all, all dungeons will be single player by the time you get to them.
Ah yes, the classic Ultimecia Bio part
Trust me, once the story gets its hooks in you 200 hours feels like nothing
14 will always have a special place in my heart. It’s crazy considering how adamantly against playing it I was at first. Great video
"Im not an MMO guy" Jessie Cox best put it by calling XIV an RPG MMO rather than an MMO RPG
It's MMO-ish but you can play it very much like an RPG, in particular since recent patches they have added NPC assist system for dungeons so you only really need to do a handful of one-off trials with a matchmaker group (who will more often than not be happy to see a newbie going through the story).
You're not gonna be able to guess the story right because a good chunk of the music is from optional raids which have their own separate stories lol. Also with the stark contrast between What Angel Wakes Me and One Brings Shadow
What you gotta do to experience FF14 is to watch a streamer 's playthrough of the series, find out they're bigoted, find ANOTHER streamer playing through the series, until you either find one that isn't bigoted or finish the story. My money's on the latter
I was absolutely thinking while playing Theatrhythm, "People are going to think Alexander's a huge part of FFXIV after this." Glad to have that thought validated!
Fun fact about A Long Fall on Supreme: It makes you do the meme dance. It's amazing.
This game is sooo good.
Odd thing to stick out… but the editing was especially good in this video to me for some reason
Love this format, great editing.
Best bonus
XIV players are emotion vampires. If you stream it from the beginning and genuinely put effort into it the flood of starved vampires will show up. Just beware of the "🙂" walls.
I didnt know Ben Hanson was in a death metal band.
Hey! This wasn't bad
I'm gonna take the fall and paste the copypasta:
Hey did you know that Final Fantasy XIV has a free trial that includes the base game, the award-winning expansion Heavensward, and up to level 60, entirely free with no restriction on playtime??
I'm so glad you guys made this! I should probably play FF14 huh??
I guess the key to unhinged content is to record it after Nintendo onWine 😂
Ben you watched 20 hours of Psychonauts documentary. Watch you some FFXIV stuff.
Yshtola 1 is before her soul entered the aether stream and yshtola 2 is after they got her out